There are no uncontaminated angels

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn’t as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.